Modified Gravity: from Compact Objects to Dark Energy (MGCODE)
HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01
- Call: HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01
- Grant no.: 101063210
- Project duration: 1/1/2023 – 15/5/2025
- Host institution: Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 1999/2, 182 00 Prague 8, Czechia
- Project supervisor: Dr. Ignacy Wolak-Sawicki
Probing cosmic acceleration across scales
The accelerated expansion of the Universe, possibly driven by an unknown dark energy dominating the energy density of our space, remains one of nature’s great puzzles. The modified gravity approach assumes that this cosmic acceleration is not attributed to dark energy but occurs owing to a weakening of gravity on very large scales. Gravitational wave observations have offered the opportunity to study modified theories of gravity on short scales, specifically around compact objects. Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the MGCODE project will seek to significantly improve the constraints on cosmological modifications of gravity. Merging expertise from high-energy physics, cosmology and gravitational wave astrophysics, researchers will investigate modified gravity dynamics on different scales in a model-independent way.
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